Comments on: Bigger Screens More Or Less

By: SEO Colombia

SEO Colombia — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:02:05 +0000

This is great information to pass for my designers. We were just looking for this kind of information as we are planning to redesign a couple of our client´s websites are we were just looking for every detail to make a great job. I think that User behavior, and thus, usability, is going to play a crutial role in the search engine rankings, if not already.

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:49:31 +0000

That’s the reason I try to develop new sites with a semi fluid layout while fixing it with max-width. So people with smaller resolutions could shrink the site while visitors with much bigger screens are focussed to the content without moving their eyes hectically from left to right to find the information they are search.

If the layout have a relative size everybody could scale it up and down if it’s needed.

By: WannaDevelop.com

WannaDevelop.com — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:51:51 +0000

I personally think it’s even more than 65% in the USA… abroad it is a lil less from my data, even when normalizing it is still more than half so definitely has to be 1024x this days — optimize your designs for it and you will be happy you did!

Good write up Barry.

Best,

Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com/

By: Steven - Free Annuity Rates

Steven - Free Annuity Rates — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:25:41 +0000

I find myself confining designs to 780 pixels wide regardless. Yes, screens sizes are growing, but roughly 10% of my visitors are still at 800×600. I have to cater to the lowest common denominator — after all, 10% is a lot of clicks I’d be alienating.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:41:59 +0000

I agree with Tertius. For now 1024 is still the best option. I find that having 2 19 inch monitors is easier to work with vs have 1 30 inch monitor.

By: Blog Tips

Blog Tips — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:35:29 +0000

I’m a photographer so I have to have a huge screen. I couldnt deal with working with photoshop everday on a little monitor … Id go blind LOL

By: Tara @ Affiliate Marketing Prodigy

Tara @ Affiliate Marketing Prodigy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:50:57 +0000

I still generally use a set width, I am not a big fan of the liquid layouts. They look great one some pc’s but on others horrible. They also can completely through off the inner design elements of a page.

By: Tertius

Tertius — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:42:12 +0000

This is something my brother and I talked about yesterday.

If you allow full stretching and someone is using a 30″ monitor, given there aren’t a lot of those out there percentage wise, then an article and go from having 5 to 10 line paragraphs to having one line paragraphs. Really hard to read.

I think going for 1024 is still a very good bet.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:22:33 +0000

Good point, Nick. One problem here for designers is that it is a challenge to check how your design appears in wider monitors if you’re not using a wider monitor. Ah if only max-width worked in all browsers.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:06:34 +0000

That is interesting because we use a wider screen for our monitors here and I have noticed some blogs and sites come up very stretched out.